Family Veterans:
Military Heroes, War Dead, and Veterans

December 2014

On Memorial Day of 2006 I resolved to give a brief accounting of those who sacrificed for their country in military service. Veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice are designated throughout the website with gold stars () and those who served during war are designated with blue stars (). All who served in combat zones are memorialized below, grouped by conflict in reverse chronological order:

Vietnam War (1964-1975)

Korean War (1950-1953)

Veteran of World War II and personnel technician with the 6131st Tactical Support Wing, 8th Fighter-Bomber Group; served at the Battle of P'ohang (Aug 1950) and advanced with the Group to P'yongyang until its fall on December 1, 1950.

Died during the sinking of the U.S.S. Houston (CA-30) by the Japanese in the Sundra Strait of Indonesia off the island of Java, March 1, 1942; 638 of the crew of 1,008 perished and the rest were taken prisoner by the Japanese. Herbert was about age 37.

Served as an infantryman in the Philippines at the end of World War II and with the 7th Infantry during the occupation of Korea following the war. Reenlisted with the U.S. Air Force and served during the Korean War.

World War I (1917-1918)

Spanish-American War (1898)

Served in the Philippine Islands and Philippine Insurrection (~1898-1902); died on January 26, 1941, at the Veterans' Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico following decades of complications from malaria and dysentary contracted during his service

Enlisted as a Navy fireman following the explosion aboard the U.S.S. Maine; after his discharge he worked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard as a stationary engineer and died there 30 years later in an explosion, September 1, 1931

The 19th Iowa served with the Army of the Frontier and saw combat in northwest Arkansas and the Vicksburg Campaign. After the victorious Seige of Vicksburg the regiment was routed at the Battle of Stirling's Plantation in Louisiana and marched to Camp Ford, Texas, where they were imprisoned. It is not yet known if Madison and Charles were captured and taken prisoner.

Wounded in the right leg at the Battle of Champion's Hill (May 16, 1863) on the road to Vicksburg, Mississippi and again a year later at the Battle of Opequon Creek (September 19, 1864) on the road to Winchester, Virginia, leaving his right leg crippled. Age 20.

Likely served in Gen Kazimierz "Casimir" Pułaski's Legion (1778-1779) before Col Charles Armand ("Colonel Armand") Tuffin, Marquis De La Rouërie, took over the legion after Pułaski's death at the Battle of Savannah (October 11, 1779) and renamed it as the First Partisan Corps; "altercations" in 1782 on the return, presumably to New York following Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, Virginia (October 19, 1781)